When the Nintendo Switch was first revealed back in the fall, it didn't take long after that initial showing for the internet to point out how the Joy-Con Grip looks a lot like a dog's face if you look at it right. Since then, plush toys and t-shirts with a Joy-Con dog have begun popping up here and there, and now, a sticker will allow you to turn your Joy-Con Grip into that adorable pup.

A small Kickstarter was started a couple weeks ago by Nintendeal, in which high-quality stickers of a dog's mouth were pitched for the Joy-Con Grip. The Kickstarter has now blown past its initial goal of $1,000, and sits at about $4,500 at the time of writing, with nine days left to go till the Kickstarter ends. If you would like some stickers, just follow the source link and pick a tier, the cheapest option runs for $4.

What do you think? Will you pick up some stickers? What should the Joy-Con dog be named? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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Sincerely no offense intended to those who like this idea, but how does this look like a normal dog's face? Dogs typically do not have diagonally-aligned eyes and freckles/pimples/screws (ie, the face buttons), making it look like one of Dr Frankenstein's creations. Plus, in my opinion, the "smiling tongue" sticker makes it look smugly creepy.

From what I understand, the dog comparison to the grip face arose from only one drawing by someone. I noticed no such comments observing any similarity between these two things by anyone before this drawing appeared. This is probably going to take off and become mainstream, so, someone please help me to understand.

i can just print this out myself, really. and i'm sure others have already. one of the trends in piracy is idea piracy where people troll kickstarter for ideas to hand off to a factory for production before the original idea has even been funded.

@Gauchorino Sure, the eyes are misplaced if you're going to dissect every little detail of why it SHOULDN'T look like a dog, but the Switch icon in the middle looks like a dog's nose, and those Joy-Con grips on the side look like hanging dog ears, hence the whole "looking like a dog" thing.

@ThanosReXXX Thanks! Those features you listed are basically what I thought the idea was derived from. Yeah, I thought she had been the originator of the comparison (or, at least, based her toy's design off of someone else's drawing).

It's not that I'm trying to dismantle the perception that it looks like a dog, by the way. It just doesn't really look like a dog to me (without some leaps in added detail).

@Gauchorino I know, I was just pulling your leg a bit with that dissecting comment. At first, it didn't really look like a dog to me either, although pretty quickly, that image remained in my mind after so many people sketched, stitched and Photoshopped images of the Switch looking like a dog.

But having said that, I do get the "hanging ears" bit, and there are only so many animals that have those...

So, it's probably sort of a mass-conviction thing, most people believing it does have "dog-like" features, and apparently, the majority went with that idea, much like these dog sticker guys...

I think if the two analog sticks were next to each other, this would look a lot cuter. I can imagine the face buttons being like freckles and the - symbol looks like an eyebrow. Unfortunately the + just looks like a +. So... I might take a miss on this.

...it's amazing, and it's a great first-ever pledge. I was kind of starting to doubt my grey switch pre-order, since the red-and-blue was starting to grow on me (much like the Gamecube "indigo" became something very much Gamecube-y). But as a dog, the grey one looks better still.